door the protests infamous comments made by president and ceo danica think in the kitchen. >> love and responding to a message of hate. >> activists wrote messages on the sidewalk. they stayed 45 minutes answering questions from reporters. other gay activists say the kitchen is not the right way to get the message across. >> in issues of the nature i prefer a conversation and working with the law as opposed to antagonizing those who are just trying to run a franchise of business. >> anthony martinez is director of civil rights agenda which advocated for lgbt civil rights. the organization filed a complaint against chick-fil-a. he said targeting individual franchises isn't appropriate. >> in downtown chicago, she has said they welcome gay people, they have gay employees. and so it seems a little -- a

little off message in my mind. >> throughout the country, gay rights activists celebrated kiss day at chick-fil-a restaurants. in atlanta they took their message to the streets. in california someone painted taste like hate in a chick-fil-a restaurant in torrance. the controversy has been overblown. >> i support gay marriage and equality. however, i love their chicken sandwiches. >> the owner declined a request for an interview. off camera, she and her staff are ready to serve all customers regardless of their sexual orientation. wgn news. >> coming up crucial hearsay evidence used for the first time in the drew peterson trial today. good news, not so good news on the job front. the latest unemployment pick offering a mixed picture. jim ramsey is here. the forecast is coming up.

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peterson trial wraps up in high drama. kathleen savio's sister testified that weeks before her death savio said peterson had threatened to kill her. testimony was cut short when the juror got sick today. reaction from the county courthouse in joliet. >> we have a very important statement from kathleen that drew was going to do something to her and make it look like an accident. >> kathleen savio's older sister took the stand today and told the jury that six weeks before her death, kathy told anna that, quote drew had told her he was going to kill her and she was not going to make it to the divorce settlement that she would not get his pension or the kids. she said kathy made her promise over and over to quote take care of my boys. defense attorneys called anna who appeared confused at times a liar. >> if you tell the truth you don't have to remember what they

said. only a liar can't remember what they said. she can't keep it straight. >> it's at that time that he told anna if anything happened to her to get a briefcase in the back of her suv that it would have important papers in it. the contents though have not been disclosed yet. >> nothing. >> nothing. >> anything in the brief case they would have shown her the contents of the brief case. >> four years after kathleen savio died in her bathtub and months after stacy peterson disappeared, anna came over to the house with stacy's neighbor. in court anna says she went there because she was concerned about kathy's son tommy and chris. she could not say that she went there because drew peterson's fourth wife was gone and that she thought he killed her sister and she was worried about her nephews. she could not say stacy's name at all even though stacy's

disappearance is the reason kathleen savio's body was exhumed. her death changed from accidental to homicide. >> you have to mention stacy who she is. one woman missing another one dead. if that doesn't speak loudly to the public and the jury, what the us? >> when the entire body of evidence is in all of these issues, it will become clear. >> early recess today meant both sides got a jump start on getting ready for tuesday and what is expected to be a lively week in court. reporting from joliet marcella rayman, wgm news. >> join them for more coverage of the drew peterson trial. it airs tuesdays through fridays. a panel of experts on hand to answer questions about the case. the owner of the megabust that crashed thursday killing one and injuring dozens defending the vehicle's maintenance history. the owner said the bus has to pass a preventive maintenance

check next week. it was on the way to kansas city when the bus crashed into a pillar. it killed a university of illinois dental student. several others had to be extra kated from the bus. victims say they got limited information on what happened to cause the accident. >> they told me blown tires. they do try to throw the bus, ran into a brick wall or something i don't know. >> the federal motor carrier safety administration says megabus usa has a satisfactory rating and the buses are involved in six crashes in the last two years. over the last two years, seven drivers were given violations for driving while tired. hiring is up but so is the unemployment rate. the economy added 163,000 jobs in july far better than the 100,000 analysts they were expecting. but job growth picked up the rate picked up from 8.3% to 8.2%

as people were looking for work. it's a hot topic. >> a hammer blow to the struggling middle-class families of america because the president has not had policies to put american families back to work. i'll put them in place and get america working again. >> here's the thing -- we're not going to get to where we need to be if we go back to the policies that helped to create this mess in the first place. >> acknowledging there's still too many americans out of work the president noted 1.1 million jobs have been created this year. he said the economy is headed in the right direction albeit slowly. investors focus on the positives sending stocks soaring, the dow jones industrials soared up to 13096 gaining 217 on the day. nasdaq climbed up 58 points and s&p almost 26 points.

marcus la shaw went to the lab to find out more. >> don't let the building at 348 north ashland fool you. inside these walls pretty amazing things are happening. >> anything from the cell phone to the doorbell. >> the m&b behind m&b labs, the disciplinary art space focusing on technology and media art. >> we're open space for a lot of artists and working in a lot of mediums that might be interested in learning about new technology or new media. we provide access to materials and knowledge if you're interested in that stuff. >> it's hard not to be interested in some of the states coming out of this workshop. take this computer-driven drawing machine. >> i'm putting the pen in place and doing a little calibration. the hardware does the hard work. the software that i've written which looked at a diagram as a

guideline will draw over time on a wall. >> when it does finish, you get something like this. the crew entered the machine in a red bull innovation contest. it was good enough to take them to the national top 12. at the core was something called the argamino. >> number of directorives you can put in and a chip just like a computer. you can have it operate on its own with different plugs or sensors or motors or connectors into it and have unlimited amount of things. >> things like the drawing machine. the team had 72 hours to create some kind of game. >> we want it to be a game where we modified it noodle balled around it. you have players that move the ball. we wanted to morph the field-to-table surface which puts the ball in the direction. >> the result was a soccer-like

game with 135 balloons under the playing surface. players use the wii controllers to fill the ball with air altering the fields and moving the ball. it's an open source platform, sharing their system and the library to the world hoping it will lead to bigger creations down the line. >> it could be a screen, it could be a multitude of different -- our projects are visualizations things like that. so we're working on different animations. >> and this isn't their only new project. they've been tinkering with this 3-d printer. >> the real 4ri need thing is there's a website that can go on-line and say oh we're looking for a new hanger from the store and you search for the object. you download the object and you can print it there. >> in a few hours the machine makes objects out of hard plastic like mri scans of skulls or even italian chairs, mb labs is an environment where vin

tors entrepreneurs and computer programmers can come and brainstorm with a nice idea to change everything. >> it's fun. it's nice to have the materials and the machines to make the projects happen. more, it's the people around here too. people are excited to try out something weird, different that's what makes it fun to be around here and working. >> marcus laschaub, wgn news. >> ahead a top start for the weekend. upper 90s could be replace bid powerful storms.

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chicago today made it up to 95 degrees. but take a look at that. no that's correct. not an error. 113 degrees today in oklahoma city. that tied the all-time record high temperature for that date. but notice up to the north and west, a pocket of cool air sliding south out of canada. now that is going to be preceded by a little shift in wind direction that will usher in the cool air the cool front will be making its way to chicago late tomorrow. we are expecting a very hot and humid day across the area saturday. but with the passage of the cold front, we do expect a beautiful day on sunday. temperatures all across the region at the moment. you can see it's warm out there. o'hare reporting about 79 degrees, what about the winds? well, as i said, coming off of lake michigan but at the time, there's a shift in wind direction sweeping around to the southeast and moving more

southerly. that's going to usher in a hot day tomorrow. in fact we'll make it to 97 degrees. so be prepared for a hot one. down to the south and southwest of chicago this is an excessive heat warning heat advisory in effect. they do include the chicago area. in the north and west, severe thunderstorm watch with a few warnings embedded. notice the gray areas around chicago with the north and the west. that's an air pollution action day that's been declared effective through tomorrow at midnight. expect problems if you have difficulty breathing with such offenders as ozone and some par tick -- par tickkck -- particulates in the air. we could have another hot one around thursday with the temperature above 90 but most of the coming seven days with the exception of tomorrow, should be in the 80s.

a good look at current temperatures. you can see that cooler air up to the north and west. but it really gets warm as you check out parts of missouri and extreme southwestern illinois. big storms tonight rattling to minnesota. minneapolis getting hit. that's in association to the approaching cold front. that will make its way to chicago. we're thinking tomorrow evening. probably between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m., could be strong. more storms down through the southern plains and parts of the southeast. north georgia and western carolina is getting hit. the storm prediction center has outlooked our old section of the midwest here for a slight chance of severe storms. so stay close to a forecast tomorrow. some of these storms could be powerful. the big offenders will probably be strong winds and hail should they occur. there you go the storms late in the afternoon to be followed by this computer model by

relatively decent weather. winds already through parts of south dakota at or above 80 degrees in spots. for to want b, fair, hazy. low temperature 74 78. storms, high temperature, 95 to 98 degrees. tomorrow night early storms. low temperature in the 70s. so there you go as you go to sunday, some improved weather temperatures expected to be a bit cooler. now, what about the seven-day forecast? that isn't too bad, mike. again a warm day coming up in the next seven. for the most part, that's not a bad looking forecast. >> not any 80s for a while. usually 90s. >> it will feel like fall. >> for us thank you. >> sure. as gabby douglas celebrates, her friends and family are celeb rating in nearby maryville

indiana. >> there's jubilation and tears of joy at the home of gabby douglas' grandparents the indiana couple along with relatives and friends can hardly believe what is happening. the enormity, the medals. number one, all of that. and the first african-american to get the all-around. she'll be in the history books. >> gab bif's grandfather a retired steelworker said it wasn't long ago she'd prance around the living room dreaming about the olympics. it took years of hard work and fierce determination to turn her dreams to olympic gold. the whole family pulled together to help mom train for the gymnastics training and eventually the expensive trip to the london olympics for his mother and siblings.

she sacrificed much to help her daughter reach the london olympics. >> she sacrificed a lot for the family. sacrificed her team doing the things she wants to do. >> the family can't wait to see their world famous grand daughter. the pride and joy for the entire country and most especially northwest indiana. julianne cruz with, gn news. a charitable organization is using lalapalooza to raise money and awareness about cancer and leukemia. the love hope strength will try to find as many attendees as possible who meet the transplant. >> huge need in the registry with people from diverse programs. what better way to find them than through music. music brings people all walks of life together. >> the test is easy. it involves a swab inside the house for is a alysha.

-- is a liza. see the bears as they practice for the first time at soldier field. the white sox win in dramatic fashion. he's got the highlights. next in sports. every year we pick a new city to explore. but thanks to hotwire, this year we got to take an extra trip. because they get us ridiculously low prices on really nice hotels and car rentals. so we hit boston in the spring-- even caught a game. and with the money we saved, we took a trip to san francisco. you see, hotwire checks the competitions' rates every day so they can guarantee their low prices. so, where to next? how about there? ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e... ♪ ♪ hotwire.com ♪ rick! wow, you look terrific! [ female announcer ] crest 3d white glamorous white toothpaste removes

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>> it's early, later whatever. >> it's late. game has more meaning. the white sox, though -- >> that's a good thing. >> the schedule turned in favor of the white sox after a schedule of 13 of 19 games on the road after the all-star break. they open a nine-game homestead against the angels. anaheim with a 2 1/2 game lead over detroit. things went sour in a hurry for mike scioscia. they're going to get under the skin and a.j. pierzynski.

two-run shot. sox led 9-1 in the first. angels were able to take the lead. driving in the run for third. l.a. would take a 6-9 lead. in the seventh, the sox came back. a clutch hit from alejandro derosa. this one a ground rule double making it 6-6. kept the angels at bay. alex rios gets the high pick and drives it to center. two-run shot to win the game. second of the night for alex. the sox stay 2 1/2 up over the tigers. alex rios has been here all year long. underestimated, undervalued for a lot of people. solid for anybody in the league. he played great for us. a big win. it happened to the right guy. >> always wild in southern california. not for the cubs tonight.

led 1-0 in the fifth. the shot down the line by valbuena. the game was tied. l.a. pulled away. a.j. homered the second. the cubs go down 6-1. jeff samardzijan gets the loss. brian urlacher and a sore knee as the bears came down for a one-day practice. a balmy evening on fan fest night. the bears just off of their preseason game. the bears being rightfully cautious. brandon marshall, meantime first chance 20 play before the home crowd and was pumped up even though it was not game day. >> i get antsy under the lights. a line of people. the prewarmup warmup for the

season and the preseason. working a little bit. working on my nerves. so i'm excited about this opportunity. all the support that the bears have. all of the love they've shown me. >> coming out on the field. you know, we have great fans and it's just a different environment when you come and you practice here as opposed to being on the practice field tonight. >> michael phelps won gold in the final olympics race. the 100-meter butterfly. the 17th career gold medal. franklin won the third gold medal setting the world record in the 200 meter backstroke. that's the olympics, a night in sports. >> michael phelps. >> a great career. >> oh my god. that's it for this saturday morning.